Duke and Duchess of Gloucester Visit 1976

On Tuesday the 20th April 1976 the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester began their tour of Lancashire. The Duke spent the morning at the William Thompson Recreation Centre in Burnley. At lunch he joined the Duchess at Burnley Town Hall for a civic lunch. The Duchess had spent the morning visiting Samlesbury Hall and the Nature Reserve. In the afternoon the Duke and Duchess left Burnley separately, the Duke travelled to Helmshore to take part in the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Great House experimental husbandry farm and the Duchess to visit the North Lancashire Leonard Cheshire Home at Garstang.
The couple returned to Windsor to attend the Queen's 50th birthday celebrations and continued their tour of Lancashire on Wednesday 21st April, driving to Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham from Samlesbury airfield where the Duke had inspected the North West District Boys Brigade The couple returned to Preston.